Ennis jumps for joy

The unstoppable poster girl of British athletics adds yet another world title to her burgeoning collection and just misses world record

Jessica Ennis competing in the High Jump in Doha Photograph:Reuters
How fitting that the spectacular sporting complex here in Qatar — the Doha
Aspire — should have been graced by Britain’s Jessica Ennis yesterday.

If there is one British athlete, more than any other, who aspires to greatness
at the Olympic Games in London in 2012 it is the Sheffield multi-eventer who
won the pentathlon at these IAAF world indoor championships.

Ennis, 24, is the first British woman to win an indoor world title, her
victory here coming just seven months since she won the heptathlon gold at
the world championships in Berlin. She broke the British record and the
championship record, her 4,937 points narrowly missing out on the world
record, but she summed it up perfectly. “Everything is a path to London,”
she said. “It’s mad — two world titles. I can’t believe it.”

Ignore the smile that greets you whenever she is around. Put her on a track
and there